Locking device



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W. E. HARRIS LOCKING DEVICE Filed March 7, 192.3 2 Sheets-Sheet l SJ mvewtoz 10 23, 1923. EAZLQQS W. E. HARRIS LOCKING DEVICE Filed March 7, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 position.

Patented Get. 23, 1923 sires T-E WILL1AM EARNEsTfHARnIs, or LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA,

LOCKING DEVICE.

Application filed. Mam, 1923. Serial No. 623,416. 7

T 0 all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, WILL AM E. HARRIS, a citizen of the United States, residing. at Long Beach, inthe county 'of Los Angeles and State of California, have inventeda new and useful Locking Device, of'which the fol lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to motor vehicle bodies, and more particularly motor vehicle bodies of the closed type.

The primary object of the invention is to provide novel means for holding the sliding window sections thereof against movement when in their closed positions, the device being especially adapted for use in connection with sliding Window sections.

Another object of the invention is to provide a structure of this character which may be readily and easily applied to struc-,

tures now in use, eliminating the use of making alterations in the structure for applying the same. VVit-h the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that'changes in the precise embodiment of The invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a closed body of the type employing a securing device constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view through the upper spaced rails of the top, and disclosing the device in its inactive Figure 3 is a detail bracket members.

Figure 4 is a plan View disclosing the securing members as mounted betweenthe upper side rails of the top, and I Figure 5 is aside elevational view thereof r with a winter top to close the uppe portion thereof, the top being indicated at 5 and supplied with sliding window sections view of one of the Referring to the drawings indetail, a motor vehicle body is shown as equipped disposed ins'paced relation with each other 7 along theupper edges of the window section's, theupper ends of the bracket members extending inwardly and downwardly providing spaces for the rollers 8 that support the window sections. 1

Mounted between the rails 11 of the top 5, isa track bar 9 that includes track sec 'tions' 10 and 12, the section 12 being designed to accommodate one window section while the track section 10 accommodates the adjacent window section and permits the sections to move one behind the other when the windows are moved to their open positions. I i

The bar 9 is pivotallysupported atits upper end by means of the bolt 13, the opposite end thereof being supplied with a bolt 14 operating in the elongated opening 15 of the side railsll so when thet'rack bar 9 is bent downwardly, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 5 of the drawings, the movement of the bar 9 may be compensated for at this point.

Supported by the side rails 11, is a shaft 16 which is supported in the bearings 17 secured to the upper surfaces of the side rails, the shaft 16 being supplied with a cam 18 adapted to move into engagement with the upper surface of the track bar 9 to move the same downwardly so that'the flanges 19 formed at the upper edge of the bar 9 may contact with the upper edges of the bracket members 7 and force thesame into engagement with the lower'rails of the top 5 in a manner. thereof.

An operating handle 20 is provided at 95 I one end of the shaft 16 sothat the shaft may be readily operated to accomplish thisv result. I

to prevent rattling At the lower end. of each window frame, f i

is in the form of a length of rubber posi is a cushioning member indicated 21, which i tioned in a suitable recess formed 'in the] bottom of each window'frame, the cushionmg member being designed to permit such binding action'to take place and at the ment with the trackbar 9, whereupon the their closed positions and it is desired to lock them against movement, the handle 20 is operated to move theicam 18 into engage- In a closed bod 1 construction includin 5 V a spaced upper side rails, 21 track barpivotal- 1 supported between the rails at one of its ends, said side rails having elongated openings, a bolt carried by the opposite endof the track bar and movable in the elongated opening-s, window sections operating under the track bar and carrying rollers movable on the track bar, and means disposed above the track bar and contacting therewith for moving the track bar and Window sections to create a binding action between the Window sectionsand their frames.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing nature in the presence of two Witnesses.

\VILLIAM EARNEST HARRIS, Witnesses:

HOLLAND S. DoWNINe, CHESTER H. SPROUL.

'as my own, I have hereto affixed my sig- 20 

